Cree has appointed Thomas Wessel as senior vice president of global sales and marketing, effective Feb. 19, 2018. In this role, Wessel will report to Gregg Lowe and oversee sales and marketing for the Wolfspeed power and radio frequency (RF) and Cree LED components businesses.
Wessel brings more than 20 years of global sales and marketing leadership experience within the semiconductor industry, serving the automotive, industrial, electronics and communications markets. He joins Cree from NanoSemi, Inc., a venture-funded spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he served as vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Analog Devices, Inc., a multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal processing technology. In his role, he led the organization to eight consecutive quarters of growth. His career also spans sales and marketing management roles at Texas Instruments and Atlantik Elektronik.
Wessel holds an engineering degree in physics from the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck and completed the advanced management program at IESE Business School. He is a Stevie Awards finalist for “Best Turnaround Executive,” recognized by the industry’s only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business.
